My beardie just layed 26 beautiful and healthy eggs last night. I tried up add the pics but it said it was an invalid image (ggrrr). My female is a dark red and my male is 1/2 german giant and he is a beautiful orange. I cant wait to see what the babies look like!!!
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Beardie Eggs
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I'm not sure how much you know already so forgive me inadvance if I go on and on. Is this your first time breeding Beardies? If it is make sure to give your female a pinky once a week till she lays her eggs. Make sure you can see the milk sac on the side of the pinky ( that's when you know you got a good one)! Give her a good box that she can dig in. I used vermaculite and mixed it so it's nice and moist but not soaked. As soon as she lays them get them out and place them in clean vermaculite. Don't over crowd your containers allow the eggs room to grow. Keep your incubator at 84 degrees and humidity about 45-50. Whatever you do don't turn those eggs. Then let them go for 62 days when the babies start to hatch you can leave them in the incubator for 24 hours. It's less stress on them. Hope I answered your questions. I you have any more just let me know. Good luck and have fun 
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Have your incubator set up at correct temps days before the eggs are laid. Also, if you want a dummy proof humidity. Use the hatch rite that comes in a bag. I tried it once and it worked perfectly if you follow the dirrections on the package. When I lived in CA I hatched out a few hundred dragons and only had about a 1% mortality rate in my eggs. Start looking around to find someone to purchase your babies too now. If not you will end up with lots of them and they will end up eating toes off each other. You are now goign to enter a new finacial $$$ venture that you may not be ready for to comit too.
Best of luck to you.
Best of luck to you.
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Humidity in the egg container itself should be up at 98-99%brutus13 said:I'm not sure how much you know already so forgive me inadvance if I go on and on. Is this your first time breeding Beardies? If it is make sure to give your female a pinky once a week till she lays her eggs. Make sure you can see the milk sac on the side of the pinky ( that's when you know you got a good one)! Give her a good box that she can dig in. I used vermaculite and mixed it so it's nice and moist but not soaked. As soon as she lays them get them out and place them in clean vermaculite. Don't over crowd your containers allow the eggs room to grow. Keep your incubator at 84 degrees and humidity about 45-50. Whatever you do don't turn those eggs. Then let them go for 62 days when the babies start to hatch you can leave them in the incubator for 24 hours. It's less stress on them. Hope I answered your questions. I you have any more just let me know. Good luck and have fun
Sorry chirs allen I disagree. I have many friends that breed dragons and you dont want that high of humidity. You dont want any kind of water dew inside your containers. You keep your vermaculite moist and thats about it. Other wise you will drown your eggs. I have a zoo med digital repti-bator. I keep my humididty in the 50's and my containers and eggs both look great. They are pearly white and are firm.
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Ok, if you say so.
Humidity in my basement right now was at 50%.
Measuring the humidity in the egg container itself after just 5 minutes it was almost 90%......that is with zero condenstation inside the container(using a new incubation container). My other shoeboxes typically have some condenstation with no problems whatsoever.
Here is a pic of the one egg container out of about 20 I have incubated this year so far.
Humidity in my basement right now was at 50%.
Measuring the humidity in the egg container itself after just 5 minutes it was almost 90%......that is with zero condenstation inside the container(using a new incubation container). My other shoeboxes typically have some condenstation with no problems whatsoever.
Here is a pic of the one egg container out of about 20 I have incubated this year so far.
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Are you measuring the humidity in the egg container itself, or the humidity for the incubator?
For the most part here I have to agree with Chris. I kept my egg containers in the high 90's humidity and never drowned an egg. There were times when my lids accumulated more moisture than I liked to see and I would take the lid off and knock all the condensation off and then place it back on.
That being said the climate conditions in the wild vary to extremes and yet eggs still hatch. I had a female lay 35 eggs and could only fit 30 in the container I was using. I left 5 in the laying tub while I took the container to the incubator. I got distracted doing something else and forgot the other 5 eggs in my garage. They sat in a rubbermaid for over 2 months in my garage with temps climbing over 100 degrees on a regular basis and no "controlled" humidity. I just happened to be going out through my garage and passed the stack of tubs I had and noticed movement in one of them. When I opened it 5 baby beardies were scrambling to get out. All were healthy and looked great. I then remembered what I had done 2 months earlier.
I would venture to guess that your eggs are at a higher humidity than 50%. Most eggs will experience wrinkling from dehydration if dropped below 70% for an extended period.
I would also say that high 90's humidity would not be the "perfect" number. Eggs can take on too much water. I just never experience a problem with it and had no issues with the higher %. It was a lot easier to keep high 90's than say 85% so I just rolled with it.
Some years I produced over 700 beardies using that method so it couldn't be too bad.
That being said the climate conditions in the wild vary to extremes and yet eggs still hatch. I had a female lay 35 eggs and could only fit 30 in the container I was using. I left 5 in the laying tub while I took the container to the incubator. I got distracted doing something else and forgot the other 5 eggs in my garage. They sat in a rubbermaid for over 2 months in my garage with temps climbing over 100 degrees on a regular basis and no "controlled" humidity. I just happened to be going out through my garage and passed the stack of tubs I had and noticed movement in one of them. When I opened it 5 baby beardies were scrambling to get out. All were healthy and looked great. I then remembered what I had done 2 months earlier.
I would venture to guess that your eggs are at a higher humidity than 50%. Most eggs will experience wrinkling from dehydration if dropped below 70% for an extended period.
I would also say that high 90's humidity would not be the "perfect" number. Eggs can take on too much water. I just never experience a problem with it and had no issues with the higher %. It was a lot easier to keep high 90's than say 85% so I just rolled with it.
Some years I produced over 700 beardies using that method so it couldn't be too bad.
well like i said my incubater is set at 84degrees and my humidity is at 45% just like other breeders I know. My individual containers have vermaculite in them to help keep the eggs moist to prevent wrinkling and dehydration. Like you said you had to remove the extra moisture in your eggs that was on the container. I just set my temps and I don't have to touch them for 60-70 days when they are ready to hatch. That is great that you have a high success rate with your dragons. I have spoken with two other breeders in cali and they have the exact same approach that I have. Ultimatly the goal is to have healthy beautiful baby dragons right. So whatever you have to do to get that is what you need to do. If I could figure out how to upload pics I would post some of my eggs and incubator but its not working. I think my files are too big.
